Is there a website that tells you who flies directly between to ports, e.g Cairo-Milan. Several airlines offer that service but BA for example fly via LHR and take 13 hours for a 3.5 hour trip. Any advice gratefully received.

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JBC
In memory of Alex, miss you every day

Alitalia 2x/day, used Expedia and shortest flights option brought it to the top.

Thanks for your quick response. Tried the Alitalia site but my Italian isnt up to scratch

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JBC
In memory of Alex, miss you every day

Well, you could try

http://world.altavista.com/

It will even translate web pages for you. Don't know how good it is, but it might do a good enough job for you to get by.

Not to barge in (now that I've de-lurked myself here, I just cant' stop!), but I think what ddavis was trying to indicate is that you can probably accomplish this by going to expedia.com and searching for the flights you're interested in. After your search is performed, click the "shortest flights" option radio button at the top to float the nonstops to the top.

For the route you mentioned (Cairo-Milan) Alitalia does offer direct flights (which you can book via Expedia, saving yourself the Italian lessons!)

EDIT: Clarified Expedia's interface (select shortest flights after you search the route) and corrected my speeling errores

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Dag-nabit... hit edit, not quotes, to edit a post....

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The MilesBuzz! forum is for posting of information related to the latest frequent flyer program buzz.

This doesn't appear to have anything to do with miles or points, so I'm moving over to TravelBuzz!.

Regards,
Flipside

Well if you don't speek Italian yu could always try http://www.alitaliausa.com

Just go to alitalia and select your country.

As for the BA thing just look at a map of Europe and use as a general rule airlines only have rights to fly to and from their home countires (some exceptions do happen. This was you can see which countries airlines are going to take a lot longer

Also on expedia, travelocity you can check the direct flight only box.

Thanks flipside, I did not realise how prolific Travel Buzz was. Once again FT proves an amazing resource. I now know how to translate a website from virtually any language to another, that Expedia and Travelocity have a shortest route/direct option and Alitalia have an English website, all in a few hours.

I lurk far to much here (burnt in a flame over a year ago) and I resolve to give more than I get in future.

Thank you everyone for your excellent advice.



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JBC
In memory of Alex, miss you every day

Thank you for the kind words!